Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States relating to marriage.

That the following article is
proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall
be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified
by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years
after the date of its submission by the Congress:

—1.

This article may be cited as the
Marriage Protection Amendment.

2.

Marriage in the United States shall consist
only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the
constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the
legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a
man and a
woman.